This is an old photo from summer of 2005, taken outside of Alice Springs, Australia. I remember wild camels in the distance and wondering if there was a chance they would trample me and my equipment in the middle of the night, and if that would be a first in world history. I was using a Canon G3, piggy-backed on my LX 200. I was imaging the Large Magellanic Cloud when I captured lightning from a distant storm and the lights from a plane inbound to Alice Springs airport.
Around September '05, I emailed this image to the Southern Edition of Sky and Telescope magazine, though I did not have a subscription (was still receiving the North American magazine). I asked them to just please let me know if they decided to publish it, but I never heard back from them. At Christmas, I was vacationing in Perth when I stopped into a local book store. I picked up the (December '05?) edition of Sky and Telescope, flipped to the back, and saw by image there! That felt very surreal, and, of course, I bought a couple of copies of the magazine. I breathlessly told the checkout clerk that my image was in the magazine, and he was completely unimpressed. Somehow, I lost both copies of the magazine a few years ago
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